Wheellock Mechanism Parts and Their Correct Labeling

[Matchlock]

I found this on wikipedia and posted it here before.


Let me please do so once again in a thread of its own; its worth it, I guess, especially as some members still seem to have difficulties choosing exact denominations.

The only sad thing about this is that the first image showing the outside of the lock mechanism is of course shown mirrored. I could not reverse it because of the script. Please do keep that in mind.

The lock mechanism is German, the locksmith was Georg Schneider in Nuremberg, ca. 1575-80.


Enjoy, and best,
Michael

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Matchlock

... The only sad thing about this is that the first image showing the outside of the lock mechanism is of course shown mirrored. I could not reverse it because of the script. Please do keep that in mind....

What you mean mirrored, Michl ?

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[Matchlock]

O.k. then, you scoundrel,

When you're here with me in Bavaria you gotta show me how you did that, you computer crack!

Best, and thanks a million,
Michl, a bloody computer layman

[Matchlock]

A finely etched, detached wheellock mechanism for a small arquebus, Ausgburg, Bavaria, ca. 1565-70, formerly in the author's collection; author's photographs.

This is one of the very rare instances that you can study a wheellock mechanism when completely dismantled down to all its tiniest parts, and the smallest of screws.


Best,
Michael

[Matchlock]

A finely etched and gilt double lock and barrel wheellock pistol, made by Peter Peck in Munich, Bavaria, in ca. 1540-45, preserved in the Met and dismantled to all its single parts.

Have fun jigsaw-puzzling!


m

[fernando]

What ... do you expect me to insert a legend in each part ?

[ChrisPer]

Perhaps someone could provide labels for the numbers in German as well?

As I want to learn more and more about wheellocks / Radschloss I am grabbing anything I can see whether English or German language and it would help greatly to find an antique arms vocabulary!

I have the IMO wonderful Catalogue of the 4000-piece Wheellock Collection from the Landeszeughaus in Graz, and a number of their publications, which are some in German and some in English. Radschloss Sammlung - Wheellock Collection, Landeszeughaus Graz by Robert Brooker. Radschloss Sammlung - Wheellock Collection, Landeszeughaus Graz, Austria. 730 pages, ill. http://www.antikmakler.de/catalog/lng/en/bv19818.html

The book 'How to build your own Wheellock Pistol or Rifle' edited? by Georg Lauber has full construction drawings (dimensions in decimal inches, though some were said to be produced in mm) of a 1640s-style wheellock with the thin wheel entirely outside the lockplate. I have once scanned this entirely as it is out of print and quite expensive when you find it. A 2007 thread at the Muzzleloading Forums has a post detailing the small errors found by someone who built one from the drawings.

The slightly-thicker-than-a-pamphlet book Wheellock Firearms of the Royal Armouries by Graeme Rimer which has the pictures and part names below on pages 10 and 11:
http://www.royalarmouriesshop.org/bo...armouries.html

[Raf]

Less said about Lubers book the better.If you hav'nt already found it there is a useful visual tutorial by Raspla at americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=17231.270

[ChrisPer]

Originally Posted by Raf

Less said about Lubers book the better.If you hav'nt already found it there is a useful visual tutorial by Raspla at americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=17231.270

Lauber was all there was in the early 1970s when I bought a copy, and it was a valiant effort in the days without the Internet and computer drafting. I always wanted to find what his story was.

Thanks for the link, I am a longtime admirer of Raszpla's work and especially his willingness to share with us.